Winter amnesties [electronic resource] : [poems] / Elton Glaser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaser, Elton.

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Aesthetics--Poetry.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winter Amnesties is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G. K. Chesterton: "One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it." The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future. At middle age, Glaser remembers his youth in Louisiana and settles into the long stretch of his adult years in Ohio; he makes his peace with "the life that allows." As son, as father, as poet, he looks to his legacy, whatever dim remnant of himself might continue after "all flesh falls back

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Clearing the Ground; Hymn and Field Holler; Suppertime; Introibo at 5 a.m.; Epiphany Stick; Dancing Lessons; The Summoning; Seminary Easter; King Cake Party; Somniloquy; American Flyer; Junkyard Blues; Winter Inset; Cradlesong; Two; Crows in a Locust Tree; Turning with the Animals; First Earth; Seapiece; This Late, This Far; Shadows by Giacometti; Freefall at Evening; Nothing of Ourselves; Hibernation; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; A Little Daymusic; Late Returns in Eden; Bird Lady; Dog Nights; Sunny Side Up; Sub Rosa; Underfoot

Half-Ode at HarvestThree; This Is Your; Zero Summer; Bifocal; Long in the Tooth; The Effects of Myth at Two below Zero; Le Piano Introspectif; The Faith of Forty; Smoking; Dirge in the Chalumeau Register; Spry Declensions; Refusing October; Purge; Principles of Conversion; Forecasts; Last Poem of Summer; Deathbed Edition; Also in the Series; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8501-5

1-299-05089-1

0-585-33276-2

OCLC:

856870464